Raise the Moon to Lower Sea Levels

Morning Journal, Thursday, July 17, 2014

For billions of years the Moon has been drifting away in altitude from Earth by about a half an inch per year. In just 1.26 million years the moon will be 10 miles further away! So what if we gave nature of push of just a few several billion years? We humans have proven our ability and propensity to control nature let's not look away from the Earths' moon to control nature again. 

When sea levels rise to destructive levels at our shores what will we do? We'll move inland. We'll build high to stay near the shore and let the waves wash under our elevated parking garages. We'll have towering residential buildings several stories underwater all along our coasts. Venetian small businesses will sprout up in our coastal cities as the unemployed build gondolas to push us through the streets as the streets will look more like Venice every day.

When Earthlings have had enough and climb out of "future denial" and see the futility of continuing to fight the ocean all over the world to save millions and millions of people, spending trillions of dollars shoring up our homes and businesses, we might then look to this seeming incredible solution: we could send the moon further away, enough to lower world wide sea levels to a far more tolerable level.  

What are Tides (from HiWaay.net) "The Moon and Tides": 

"Tides are created because the Earth and the moon are attracted to each other, just like magnets are attracted to each other. The moon tries to pull at anything on the Earth to bring it closer. But, the Earth is able to hold onto everything except the water. Since the water is always moving, the Earth cannot hold onto it, and the moon is able to pull at it. Each day, there are two high tides and two low tides. The ocean is constantly moving from high tide to low tide, and then back to high tide. There is about 12 hours and 25 minutes between the two high tides." And;  "Tides are the periodic rise and falling of large bodies of water. Winds and currents move the surface water causing waves. The gravitational attraction of the moon causes the oceans to bulge out in the direction of the moon. Another bulge occurs on the opposite side, since the Earth is also being pulled toward the moon (and away from the water on the far side). Ocean levels fluctuate daily as the sun, moon and earth interact. As the moon travels around the earth and as they, together, travel around the sun, the combined gravitational forces cause the world's oceans to rise and fall. Since the earth is rotating while this is happening, two tides occur each day." And;  "Spring Tides: When the moon is full or new, the gravitational pull of the moon and sun are combined. At these times, the high tides are very high and the low tides are very low. This is known as a spring high tide. Spring tides are especially strong tides (they do not have anything to do with the season Spring). They occur when the Earth, the Sun, and the Moon are in a line. The gravitational forces of the Moon and the Sun both contribute to the tides. Spring tides occur during the full moon and the new moon."

Our oceans swell by several feet all over the world and at differing heights of danger, especially during ocean born storms. The frequency and severity of these storms can be expected to increase in coming years where many coastal massive populations are living.  

Gravity between the Earth and moon can be reduced when the moon is pushed, say 100,000 miles further from us. This reduction in gravity due to the increased distance can lower the world's oceans by one to several feet, buying humanity centuries to reverse our atmospheric issue.  

Simplistic? Yes kind of, but consider the simplistic ideas that have created the most wonderful technology and solutions to our problems in our past, and consider this may be one of those types of ideas. A common statement from nearly everyone at one time or another is "It's just amazing to me that our generation had not thought of that simple solution way back then!" 

Some detriments to this project may be: We would be reducing tidal influence every where, causing a loss and a changing of shore ecology including wildlife whose lives are dependent upon the tides. We would be influencing tectonic pressures and placements all over the world. We may experience several volcanoes at once as pressure upon lava lakes and lava streams are released by the of pressure withdrawn by distancing the moon from Earth. But solutions which prevent those things from happening, I am confident, we can create before sending our satellite further out of orbit. 

We may lose the moon if we miscalculate its new distance, and it may return to us in the form of a collision with Earth, which would be a not-so-amusing cosmic irony since the moon was created by the collision of a planetary body into the molten earth more than three billion years ago. 

Ship and boats in harbors around the world may be beached on the rock and on the seabed if not prepared for the change when the moon is sent further away. Surfing will be so many feet of water less challenging and fun. Winds born of ocean waves of high oceans will be reduced, and we will see a reduction in sea-born winds and hurricanes and typhoons. And an idea worth exploring now before great suffering occurs that we could have stopped.  

Hey let's give it a try because it may be worth the risk in sheer numbers of lives and untold amounts of energy and money.  

Copyright Reserved: James G. Mason, July, 2014. JamesGMason.com

The Moon and Tides:

http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moontides/ 

Lincoln: "Government is the coming together . . "

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Pick a government program you can't stand! Now show evidence that the problem/s addressed by that program, what's solutions were previously unobtainable by ". . groups or individuals who could not or would not . ." can now be handled fairly, within the confines of the Constitution, by those same individuals and groups! 

It's a simple and personal test of your understanding of a functioning democratic community!

Go ahead pick a program! Comment your opinion below, based in evidence of course. Simple! I won't comment back!

*Congressman Lincoln gave this explanation to a reporter in his freshman term. It is too liberal of a statement to appear in Lincoln biographies! It is also an example of how the Republican Party of his day was comprised of representatives who favored a liberal agenda, especially the very liberal idea of his time of abolition of slavery. Yes I'm saying President Lincoln was a liberal. Few biographers or historians will touch the issue of the liberal and conservative divide of Lincoln's time. That would be bold and result in losing book sales to nearly half the population of readers, who would hear about this partisan statement. 

No Lincoln comments. Pick a program!

#biggovernment #smallgovernment #conservative#liberal

This Bread is So Dry . .

This bread is so dry . . . .

I fear I have destroyed my salivary glands.

The ancient Martians invented this bread; That's what happened to them. 

For my own safety I had to eat it next to a fire extinguisher.

People who live in the desert give it away to tourists. For their own survival.

You need a State license to make the bread, because many ovens catch fire and melt when baking it.

BP keeps several pounds off-shore in case of an oil spill.

I missed my own birthday, while trying to eat it.

Place a strip of beef jerky next to it, the jerky becomes completely dehydrated and blows-away. 

If kids are bouncing on it in the backyard, it gets lifted by the wind and carries the children away with it.

Cures water-on-the-brain by holding it in your mouth for ten minutes.

Lifeboat passengers stranded at sea fight over who has to eat it next.

In southern California loaves of this bread are believed responsible for the deadly Santa Ana winds.

Mean children toss it to seagulls at the beach to watch them shrink.

Parents are strapping loaves to their young children's arms who don't yet know how to swim.

It is kept locked-away by the nurses on psychiatric care units where suicidal patients are staying.

Siegfried and Roy now use it in their live shows, instead of whips.

Used to be called Wonder Bread before the lawsuit.

One million pounds of it was floated into the stratosphere to repair the hole in the ozone layer.

Was given free to Occupy protesters in New York City, the day before they all went home.

10,000 loaves tied to strings were used to raise a sunken cruise ship in Italy.

The Apollo eleven Astronauts brought back several loaves uneaten, after it was discovered that eating powdered orange Tang by the spoonful was more efficient and refreshing.

Binary information can be stored in it for decades eliminating the need for hard drives.

Many intact loaves carbon dated to -2,500 b.c. have been unearthed by archaeologists digging at Stonehenge, along with thousands of lower jawbones.

It is believed that Jesus shared a single loaf of this bread with two thousand paupers, who then chewed on it for two years in the desert.

It is thought that Jesus had fashioned two loaves into sandals, just before he walked on water.

An energy efficient house in Arizona was made entirely of this bread but had to be destroyed after the house kept attracting low-pressure weather fronts, sucking the moisture out of the clouds and causing wide-spread flooding.

If eating this bread a vacuum cleaner must be kept nearby for the aftermath.

Seniors seen feeding it to pigeons at the park have been "featured villains" in the PETA monthly newsletter.

It must be served on a string as per FAA statute sec. 4.09.02.

The bread is almost extinct and so is a sought after food of the extremely wealthy for their new fad, Dry Bread parties. Which are often followed by an evening of bondage and sadomasochism entertainment.

Whole colonies of ants have refused to carry off the crumbs because they kept floating away. Some colonies have successfully formed unions as a result of this long standing struggle with their queens.

Police have begun firing their tasers at it, before even asking questions.

Senior men: Drill a large hole through one end of the loaf, insert penis and presto . . expensive electric vacuum pumps no longer needed!

Used as a prank, college football team seniors would stuff rookie's lockers with several loaves and wait for the surprise. This prank has come to be known as the Hurt Locker, a term later used by the American military to describe the task of removing improvised explosive devices.

In San Francisco Clam Chowder soup vendors had experimented with hollowing-out the loaves to serve their soups in, however the soup would mysteriously disappear before tourists could even eat one spoonful. 

Suburban deck dwellers with outdoor natural clay ovens have learned to tie the oven down before attempting to bake the bread.

The American Red Cross turned-away three truckloads of this bread headed for the Katrina hurricane victims.
In an emergency, if accidentally swallowed, it can be washed-down with a tall glass of dirt.

It had to be moved to the refrigerator, because it caught a box of crackers on fire.

It was used a divining bread in frontier days because it got heavy over underground aquifers.

Moses did not part the Red Sea the Hebrews baked this bread then tossed it into the waves in front of them.

The atmospheric scientists made a simple typo; That report was supposed to read Global Baking.

Copyright Reserved, James G. Mason, May, 2014.

#comedy #JamesGMason

All You Can See is the Forest Through the Trees! Use Them to Get Out of the Forest

"A fungal life form of larger diameter or of a bright color is a good landmark because there will be others of the same variety in the vicinity. Definitely observe rock walls in forests, I'm not sure what they are exactly, but they all seem to go in a straight line to somewhere."

Trees Can Save Your Life! No B.S! Survival scenario: Say you are in this forest (pictured) and you are several miles from the nearest signs of civilization. You went off trail on a hunch you would find a primo campsite and you did, except the next morning you could not find your way back to the trail, because a boat-load of leaves fell overnight and everything looks almost unrecognizable. And guess what? You're a veteran backcountry hiker but this has never happened to you in all of your years! And you're barely concerned as to why all the green leaves fell off the trees overnight. [That's the case in many people who become lost (and they have been drinking) and often it only happens once to them in their lives and it's usually a multiple days doozy.] To make matters worse it's overcast but bright and light is diffused throughout the sky and so you can not identify the location of the sun. And worse the night before you stayed awake watching Dr. Who for four hours and completely ran your smart phone's power down. Worse, you remember you gave your magnetic compass to some occupy protester because he said "I just wish I had some direction in life." And you were a dramatic sap and took advantage of the beautiful timing of the moment of giving him what very well might have been your only way out of this forest! First thing you think of should be to attempt to locate the linear pattern of broken twigs and crushed leaves, bent saplings, ferns ripped, crushed decomposing log and branches, that you created walking in. But the amount of leaves makes that possibility slim, and so you can't find your own impact trail.

Time to observe nature like you were Sherlock Holmes with a forest green safari hat in camouflage green combat fatigues, so that you can possibly save your life. See how those two darker mature trees in this forest picture are leaning to the left (for best light)? [go play Rush, The Trees now] At our latitude premium sunlight passes on average of about 15-35 degrees southerly over our heads throughout the year (that bald spot on your head being 0 degrees). And you know what time of year it is. The direction of the right side mid image where it seems darker, is west north westerly, along the side of the hill, which I deduce is running east by south east by north by west north westerly. This hillside is why those trees needed to bend away from the hillside all of their lives. Mature trees have reached there pinnacle of sorts in their growth and their struggle for light (and water) is spelled-out biologically on their fat trunks to tell the story of their lives and clearly the specific direction they were headed for. Like it or not we often prejudge the quality of someone else's life and history by subconsciously observing the lines and absence of lines on their faces! Are we that shallow? Often! As young and middle aged trees these two mature (genetic twins also) trees and the others around them are not and did not get direct morning sunlight from the east because the hillside is blocking the south east, and the thickness of the forest from their light reception perspective is too much to even get good indirect light from that direction (behind you) and so the trees are biologically programmed to compensate to meet their normal carbohydrate requirements. If those mature trees had grown at the equator without nearby competition for light, they would be straight as an arrow, they would not have had to bend. Knowing this you deduce facts about your direction from what trees are not doing.  A tree bending it's trunk to reach premium light is doing so with sacrifice - a bending tree is a weaker tree because weight can not be well distributed toward the base of the trunk, and so it is a tree far more vulnerable to downing from high winds, ice and rain. A bending mature tree has some advantage in staying alive because it has seated it's roots deeper and thickened them in opposition to the weighty bend of the trunk.

About 285-295, or "west north westerly," is the view.

Okay now you've figured-out which directions are around you. But which direction were you walking when you went off trail? Tip, perhaps you don't' need to find the trail to get back out, but consider that trails are created over time usually for a good reason, like crossing a river, a mountain and etcetera. You recall that while walking on Main Street in the small town next to forest that you had thought about how the solar charger was getting good light at that time. You recall that had occurred about a eleven o-clock, and you surmise that you had noticed a high-sun and you were on the right sidewalk with merchant's buildings on your right, putting the sun at your left shoulder at that moment and walking westerly, and you remember Google Maps had placed the entrance to the park on the north west side of town. Now you're cooking, but you've been squatting on the leaves while contemplating all of this and fire ants have found you and are apparently making plans for a tremendous deadly ant-hill right there, because you're in f-cking southern Alabama! So you dance around slapping them off and shouting "ouch you bastards!" and you pull your pants down and check your crotch and your ass, then you get back to getting out.

Consider clearly, you are conceptually standing and lost in point B and you have a good Bering on point A where you want to return. (Bering was a nineteenth century Russian naval explorer and Admiral of great fame, inventor of the 360 degree navigation and communication method!). But before you formulate a plan of direction try this: feel at this moment for your intuition, like a tiny consciousness is tapping on the wall of the rear of your brain. Feel because now you have much related information and imagery to draw on - intuition isn't magical and it's not psychic, the feeling has basis in your mind you may not be fully aware of when it happens to you. Which direction now feels right to you? The answer from intuition or not is to turn around 180 degrees from facing the view in the picture and walk south east along the ridge, through the forest, and do not deviate, until you meet the trail or meet the roadway that the trail's entrance was located on. To maintain your path on a straight line, turning too frequently is very bad during your escape, pick out the farthest tree straight in front of you that you can distinguish, keep an eye on it, when you reach it, pick another far tree that is directly behind the tree you are currently hugging and panting on. When you start walking through empty Jack Daniels whiskey mini bottles you are almost at the road near town. Congratulations! But oh no! You're still in southern Alabama! Why are you there? So don't put away your new Sherlock Holmes persona yet.

How to never get lost in the first place:

1. Know your direction always! It's just like that classic R.E.M. song "Stand in the place where live. Now face north. Think about direction wonder why you haven't before." And so on like that. If you're a person who is not one of those genetically blessed with an internal compass which provides strong intuition about direction (related to one of the gently balancing bones of the inner ear), then you may want to stay out of the forest alone. And don't even get into a car with me, okay? I mean you're a genetic freak man! A mutation that got by our eugenics practicing god!

2. Be more observant of nature's breaks in the seemingly blurry mosaic of your visual pattern. Notice that branch that has been growing downward that you just walked passed off trail. Puzzle for a moment why you stepped over deer scat that appeared to have been dropped while running, and then ask yourself "Is there a werewolf in this forest?" A downed tree is memorable enough. A tree half down, held by another is of interest enough to be recalled. Notice trees with tumors on them, and wish you could do something for them, anything. A fungal life form of larger diameter or of a bright color is a good landmark because there will be others of the same variety in the vicinity. Definitely observe rock walls in forests, I'm not sure what they are exactly, but they all seem to go in a straight line to somewhere.

3. Blaze your own trail! Get some spray paint and . . . no - kidding! I promised my p.o. I wouldn't touch another can of the stuff within one-thousand feet of a national park again. The greatest thing out there now for doing this is neon colored rubber flex bands, available as a package of many sizes, but the small ones can hook over a small branch, loop over a branch. These cost a little so you'll remember to collect them on the way out, if you need to use the dark colored ones stuff some leaves under so it looks very odd to you in the morning. Here's a tip that Sierra Club will want my ass for: blaze a trail with your fingers and hands. Choose mature bark covered trees you are walking passed, turn around and face the way you want to exit and pull a thick piece of bark off the tree, try to expose a couple of inches of under-bark which should appear a yellowish whitish, there's your trail blaze. The under bark is a protective layer, and exposing it air you will cause a hardening to further protect itself. In the life of theses bark-blazed trees this activity is amazingly insignificant.

4. Make and observe an impact trail. Deer make small "deer paths" from a few inches wide to about 8 inches, and if you see one it probably crosses the very trail you walked-off of, use that. Those deer path have something in common. . deer make them horizontally mostly to travel around a mountainside rather than over it, to travel to water and to travel deer orgy grounds. And you can make a human path or a Debbie path, or whatever. Except your path has to be looked for to be followed, and will be only temporarily seen in local nature. While walking to your lost doom step on that branch hard, mash your heel down into the dirt now and again, rip the end of a fern or a handful of leaves off of a branch and toss it to the ground where you walk. Play ACDC Thunderstruck as you trample the forest and rip branches down left and right of you with your bare hands. Step on mushrooms. Torture a cockroach to death on a little execution pedestal so you'll remember exactly where that scene you staged from Insect Braveheart took place.

The End.

Some more tips I just can't help giving: If a plane fly's over at low altitude, your rich wife has called the governor because you didn't phone in two hours ago like the good ass-kisser husband you are, or it may be because there is an airstrip nearby. If it's not windy that pilot is probably landing on runway 270, toward the west! Observe flaps positions before your run-off on a hunch because you remembered some of this article, if the pilot is moving flaps, or flaps are downward he's/she's probably within a few miles of the runway, in that case just go to the airport, they'll have a vending machine and comfy chairs, you can rest-up and go back into the forest the way you entered the airport at the wooded end of runway 90 scaring the hell out of everybody like you were a Sasquatch (except Sasquatch aren't in southern Alabama, they're too intelligent! More so than you apparently.). Lost and see geese flying south? Forget that idea. I've tried it, they mostly fly in broad semi-circles, and if it's evening or even late afternoon they're looking for a good pond they remember, that's why they're flying so low. So the geese will get you further lost, face down in some pond, and exhausted from chasing them all over the forest - but you might stumble onto the trail that you lost while you are wildly thrashing through the woods in random directions trying to watch a flock of a seemingly aimless geese. FYI: A flattened Mountain Dew can in the middle of the forest does not mean you're on the right track, it's a mystery to me also. But if I had to guess I would say airline stewards loading the plane's refreshments, drop the cans on the tarmac, the plane rolls over them, flattening the cans and causing them to stick to the tires of the plane, then the plane rolls over a thumbtack (I hate those on the runways!) and it sticks right into the Mountain Dew can adhering it to the tire. Once airborne the steward realizes he's short a Mountain Dew for the demanding guy in 19-B, and he says to himself very disgustedly "Oh shit, we're gonna bomb the state forest again with another flattened Mountain Dew can, shit shit shit!" "Oh calm down and man-up girly man! See if he wants a 7-up and get back to work!" Said the stewardess in charge. When the cold air of upper atmosphere is reached, the thumbtack contracts, pops out of the tire and the can and falls to the ground, a flattened Mountain Dew can following it in a fluttery fashion. As least that's what seems like happens when you find a flattened Mountain Dew can in the middle of the forest.

That's it for today's Crazy in the Wilderness Show! Now go out and get lost with confidence!

Copyright Reserved, James G. Mason, May, 2014

http://jamesgmason.blogspot.com/2014/05/all-you-can-see-is-forest-through-trees.html

Morning Journal: Submarines in space. Audio embedded writing. Cars melting roadways. Sonic home dental hygiene. Giant rubbers for bathrooms. Carbon crushing machine makes diamond ring for Earth.

Submarines are complete with most of what space travel needs.

The following is very possible. Why are we not putting a nuclear submarine in space to see how it performs? I know they would be a heavy payload, but they don't have to be for launch, they could be stripped of all non spacey materials for the launch. Even the nuclear engine could be launched separately. Once in orbit we retrofit the vessel as a space workhorse and the ships' weapon systems will be ready to attack Earth bound objects and reach firing range quickly all over our system. Additionally because a submarine is tubular in shape, it can spin to provide simulated gravity for the the crew.  Anthony Zuppero phD who works for the U.S. Department of Energy, really wants to get us into space and he proposes  we could use steam for propulsion from the ice that is known to be beneath the surface of the moon and expected to be within over twenty planetary bodies/moons in our solar system. (PDF: Propulsion to Moons of Jupiter Using Heat and Water Without Electrolysis Or Cryogenics) It would be the most powerful blast of steam the world has ever known from a man made object. He proposes we dock close to the surface of the moon, where a drilling station will withdraw the ice, melt the ice and and pump it into a giant hollow donut which encircles the submarine and is affixed to the submarine. This water becomes the submarines propulsion and nuclear coolant component and the giant donut will hold enough water for all the crew needs to get around all over the system. A planetary taxi. It is estimated the speed in space of the steam propelled nuclear powered submarine will be about 270,000 miles per hour! Arriving at the Mars sex colony in just a few days! 

Doctor Zuppero has thought allot more about this than I have, he's done all the math,  and the details are great, although the concept it is relatively simplistic and efficient and practical as a methodology of exploring space, and owning our solar system: Neofuel

 Audio embedded writing would add a new dimension for writers and readers.

I'm sick of the same old blogging. Here's what I want next on my blog interface while editing; Audio Embedded Text.  The ability to put a dramatic musical sound track and emotion targeted audio special  effects and explanative chords and punctuation inflecting music within my text as I'm writing.  An audio track that begins the moment the reader sees the first letter of the first word, that is integrated to the reader's webcam and follows the reader's eyes with precision while they read, and then pauses the instant the readers' eyes turn away. The editor would let me add real music, or creatively write my own sequence music. Oh the joy all writers could provide to readers! Imagine . .

A dialogue section where the antagonist farts while talking to someone - and it's not in the text, but in the next paragraph the characters mention it!  Birds chirping while Snow White awakens in children's stories. A truck backing up during a dialogue section which actually causes the reader to misread what the speakers are saying, because it's digital media the letters could get blurry, or leave the page - the author doesn't have to write in these environmental necessities any longer. Corporations spending millions of labor hours adding soundtracks to all new books and classics of our time! Millions of couch dwelling television and movie oholics begin to read enthusiastically! Instruction manuals for imported do it yourself furniture with calming new age backgrounds, that don't stop when the Nordic lovers look away. 

Drivers of cars melting our roadways automatically.

I stuck my all wheel drive car in the icy snow back in February, it was the fourth time in my life I carelessly trapped my vehicle in snow. I’m sick of it. My tires were stuck on top of two inches of glassy smooth hard ice and that contact became lubricated by water when the temperature rose above freezing and three days passed before I gathered the energy to dig-out allot of heavy snow and ice. What if getting my car out of it’s rut meant taking a half-hour or an hour to go have some breakfast, watch the news, have a shot of whiskey then return to my car and drive off? Sweet!

Why are we not heating our tires from within and relatively quickly melting ourselves out of trouble? Dig, the steel belts within the modern steel belted radials can be heated electrically. Or a simple heating element can be conjoined to a tire air-valve stem. A temperature and pressure relief valve assures the heat has not over expanded the tires. We know that modern rubber can take temperatures of 120º on the hottest of road pavements without dangerous degradation to the material. This would be perfect for the self inflating models of car because when the tire temperature cools down the air inside will contract and tire pressure will be reduced by several pounds and would have to soon be adjusted.

There is great possibly with this invention that what saves us from being stuck can make the snow plow and tons of road salt (poisonous) in large part unnecessary. We already very much melt the under center of the roads with our engine heat, the tires could add even more heat. What if it were snowing hard and the storm threatens to strand hundreds of thousands of commuters on the highways (i.e. Atlanta, February, 2014)? What if at this point drivers all remember to switch on their tire heaters? A fold-down heating element secured underneath each quarter panel, at the wheel well, could also melt tracks for our tires to get us out of freezing cold road-side traps.

Dentists beware. Technology may replace most of you soon.

Dentists and dental hygienists, look at another career. The desire for clean and healthy and white teeth could lead to the invention of one of the most important home medical tools in our history. A sonic and microwave tooth and gums cleaning device for home use. Anyone who could afford the device can stand in their bathrooms and removes calculi and carries in minutes, and remain free of them in just seconds per morning. Can easily be computer guided to quickly target only our unwanted mouth debris so as not to disturb soft tissue, best done by a micro depth and texture detecting laser which feeds the direction and depth of an ultrasound and microwave frequency broadcast. Beneath the gum line and under the tooth hygene on a daily basis will then be possible.

Inventors should experiment with various sound frequencies known to vibrate and loosen materials. Many hospitals are using ultrasound water baths to successfully loosen and break-up kidney stones and have been doing so for more than twenty years. It makes sense and I believe someone in the dental profession already knows this and knows it will remove millions of billable hours from dentists and dental hygienists - a corrupt position to be in which is likely.

If it can happen I foresee huge drops in tooth decay and sepsis from tooth and gum infection. Hundreds of grueling hours in a dentists’ chair throughout our lives will no longer be normal.

The same concept of technology for home dental care, can be upgraded and transformed to be one of the worlds greatest medical inventions. With it’s use we’ll seen an almost end to arteriosclerosis and heart disease as contributed to by plaque among western economies. Because we should also be able to point this instrument at all of our arteries and veins, organs, and maybe one day our brain to prevent senility diseases, or at our bloodstream to remove carcinogens and metals like lead and mercury and clear every artery and vein of sclerosis.  I’ve said it before, if necessity is the mother of invention, than heavy labor maintenance to prevent and heal tooth decay exceeds qualification to require an invention.

Big giant bathroom rubbers make bathroom maintenance a piece of cake.

 If a retail brick and mortar business wants to increase their customer base they would advertise Free Restrooms Inside. Congenial, this welcomes potential new customers, and what they see they may buy. It's very basic business, offer an amenity everyone needs, and see more customers.

Paradoxically the lack of local government sponsored public bathrooms has caused merchants to also shut their bathroom doors, as the influx of all walks of people needing to evacuate themselves was too much mess for the labor involved in maintaining those bathrooms.

When I was a boy, in the nineteen sixties, every store had a sign hanging that directed customers to the bathroom. It was taken for granted. Now what happened? Gas stations began tying their bathroom keys to bricks, and the signs all came down by the nineteen nineties, even gas stations can no longer be counted on to have customer bathrooms. Here's what happened I think; gang graffiti and pornographic graffiti on bathroom walls is an offense to have to scrub off. Drug users whose homes were the streets began using any accessible bathrooms to use-up in. Homeless would crawl into bathrooms to sleep, to clean themselves. Drunks would vomit in bathrooms in businesses and especially in or near where alcohol was being served. Bathrooms are disgusting to have to continually clean up. Even employees told to so so find ways to not clean the bathroom.

Once in San Francisco I came upon a automated public bathroom across from the city university. It was at least a two minute wait after each use for the apparatus inside to sanitize the room. It was overkill. Like the machine was looking for ebola virus between crappers. I did not go inside, I had waited too long and just pissed along the subway tracks later. It was considered by the majority to be a failure. Often it was closed for repairs for days to weeks sometimes.  And it was a monetary boondoggle, a pit of taxpayers' dollars.

Boy I wish I had time to invent this: What's needed is something in-between filthy hard to maintain standard bathrooms and the expensive super bathroom with sanitary overkill.  What if a plastic glove could be attached to every wall, every floor, every ceiling of a bathroom expected to get high traffic? The grainy/bumpy anti-biotic plastic surfaces many children's' products are now made of, are graffiti proof from pens and pencils, and their design of increased surface area (the little bumps) cause wetness to dry quickly, which means bacteria and other waste is made harmless. But if this plastic was made glove-thin it would be ideal to form in the shape of toilets, paper dispensers, sinks, the trashcans, and shaped for every wall outlet, both sides of the door and door handles. Clear plastic vanity condoms shaped for the bathroom mirror can fit over a mirror in ten layers, peeled off to reveal a clear clean reflection. It would be about making maintenance of a bathroom a piece of cake. More accessible bathrooms for everyone as making them available would not be a pain in the ass for merchants who see the public. A gas station employee would grab a trash bag, throw open the door, make the hooker leave, then proceed to grab and pull the corners off of about 10-15 rubbers off the walls, the floor, the toilets, the urinal, the sink, the door handle, and grab the ceiling rubber by pulling a string. They could be decoratively printed. They could be solid colors, completely changing the appearance of a bathroom. They could be mix and match, mirrored surface condoms for mirrors, or walls or wherever, every surface capable of transferring bacteria to someone else can be peeled away and thrown out. And changing the bathroom walls colors and schemes could become addictive.

A giant carbon crushing machine that puts a diamond ring around our planet and cleans our atmosphere of everything bad.

Here's a science based fantasy that could be made a reality one day and save us and our planet: What if we built a machine, assembled in orbit, that removes billions and billions of tons of carbon from our atmosphere in a short time? What if we could solve climate change virtually overnight? What if the same machine became Earths' air filter for all harmful substances in our atmosphere? Of course, there's always been some carbon in the atmosphere because we are volcanic, but we leave safe and normal (before the industrial age) levels so as not to cause biological rapid evolutionary growth and mutations.

We build it in orbit because it's got to be huge. Too huge for structures to suspend the machine by materials and equipment in Earth gravity, one G. Along side the machine we build the space station that will tether the machine which will be lowered into the atmosphere and put into operation. The dream machine might weigh more than a skyscraper and be of similar size. It could be nuclear powered, but fusion powered would be better and that technology might be here by the time this idea gets any traction. It should lower from space to the highest altitude of a known air stream, where carbon combinations are brought high and travel attached to pollutants that also circulate in our lower atmosphere. It takes tremendous pressure and heat to squeeze pure carbon molecules into shards of diamond. A fusion reactor (still very experimental) could put out enough energy to create the incredible pressure necessary to transform the carbon molecules at a rate far faster than we can throw them into the air. Perhaps more than one machine and space station will be needed to beat the rate of carbon creation on Earth? We must be careful not to overheat the atmosphere with our desire to clean it. The waste will be one beautiful harmless thing, and one nasty black mess of goo composed of a bit of every living thing that has every lived on Earth that ever became airborne and stuck to the marvelous carbon atom. Imagine, this muck will be a little bit of ashes of great aunt Nancy, whose carbon/ashes were thrown to the wind in a beautiful ceremony with a clown and a new age  piano player. The muck will harden quickly on earth but until it does it will be hazardous waste like no one has ever seen. If the machine would pump this bad waste to a rural part of the planet, it could become a Kilimanjaro sized monument to life on Earth and the waste we put in our atmosphere. 

The beautiful harmless waste will be the pure carbon microscopic sized diamond flakes and shards and they like the bio-muck waste would also have to be placed somewhere. If we can direct all of the dust into stable orbit, we could build the most beautiful and spectacular intelligently constructed planetary ring ever seen in our galaxy. The diamond ring around around our planet could be built and added to by bringing the machine out of the atmosphere and into orbit where the permanent ring will be, and then discharge the pure carbon/diamond waste. It would be beyond beautiful. In space the diamond ring will be a shot for every alien's camera. For us on the ground a prism view through the receiving side of a rainbow of intricacy of the entire light spectrum would be viewable from everyone on Earth at once. From the ground a permanent rainbow that if built in a polar orbit will move across the land as the day proceeds! A rainbow clock, it's accuracy unquestioned, it's beauty paramount on Earth for civilizations after us to come.  It's nighttime view as it reflects lights from the other side of the planet will be incredible. The new diamond ring around Earth might just place our planet on the most beautiful planet in the galaxy list. It could be called the greatest work of art at Earth ever. It must be assembled broadly as a wide ribbon from pole to pole, and not thickly, so as not to turn the ring into a giant death ray (a magnifying glass) of heat and fire. Get to work someone else besides me!

Young Guns Military is No Longer Needed

For this Memorial Day: This is a solution to the suicides and the many domestic and family issues. There is an answer to the vast isolation from society that many veterans feel, who have joined while young.

If you need support now, call the Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255

Often when a vet gets home, they feel as if their community does not understand. They can not adapt quickly enough, and by seemingly no choice of their own begin to destroy their own lives in that battle for acceptance. A struggle to fit-in and gain acceptance that an older veteran who has already lived as an adult in society does not experience.

Adaption to society is a young person's ground, the change into adulthood while in the service creates a different universe - it's another world in there.

Please read this with this solutions in mind. Thank you. - James.

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By raising the minimum entrance age into our military to twenty-five years old, we could significantly reduce many problems involving the quality of the lives of military personnel and the cost of the issues associated with those lives. In our ancient world, the need to assure military populations are large existed. It no longer exists. So, we no longer need to pluck youthful freedom and the trials of the early years of adult discovery from our young people lives and put guns in their hands. 

Additionally, it would be ethical and prudent to ban the entrance to anyone with a dependent/child.

The military does not have to be a social services machine for young people learning how to live with themselves and others. The military should not have to enforce responsibility among developing young adults. It's time for an army which is far less parental. An institution which values personnel without emotional baggage. Not one that instead will expending hundreds of millions in tax dollars, on reigning in grown-ups not yet quite there. We could instead spend a higher percentage of our military funds on strictly military and far less on social services.

This plucking of youth is no longer necessary while our planet's population has reached seven billion. There is no shortage of strong and healthy men and women of more mature age to volunteer in our military. There is no shortage of childless men and women to conduct battle either.

Veterans will tell convey proudly "After I joined after high school my years in the military honed me into the person I am today." I ask to counter this statement "So what did it cost the taxpayers during these developmental years, becoming the person you are today?" I would add the question, "Was it not more difficult to teach you and train you, than it would have been, say if you were twenty-five and not just eighteen?" And "Would you have had an easier time of it had you been twenty-five when you went in?" The answers should be, "Yes, my immaturity cost my government a lot." And, I guess the older guys seemed to pick-up things better and have an easier time of it, overall."

What would we get in a mature military? Mature and smarter and wiser personnel who have made-it confidently to the post developmental age of twenty-five. Consider, the male brain is still in development until the age of approximate twenty-five. We'll have new personnel very likely to have already their civilian life planned when entering service. Many personnel may have already completed college and even began their career, which they may be confident they can return to after service.

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An interesting science report of a study of young brains:
Brain Development among youth/males 
NPR Story; add to Young Guns in the Military:


Brain Maturity Extends Well Beyond Teen Years: Google Search Results:


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It was recently pointed out to me by an older baby boomer that leadership was mostly missing in the Vietnam war, and that was a frequent complaint. In that war, it was common for a platoon to have a young officer assigned to lead them in combat. An absence of trust and confidence in these baby-faced officers was immediately sensed in the unit. This trust and with it confidence in leadership was rarely achieved with these young leaders. Not the case during WWII, where the department of war knew very well that mature enlistees be made sergeants and lieutenants non-com. The Department of War, figured-out, that they statistically better would perform as respected leaders in their units, far more so than the newly shaving wearers of bars.

Some ideas:

We could pay college tuition and a stipend to young people to complete a four-year degree before entering service. They would contract with the military to a term of service beginning at age twenty-five. We could then at age twenty-five, re-offer the ability to fulfill their contract or pay the tuition with interest, within for example 10 years. It's a win-win for society economically and educationally, and for all other reasons, a mature military would quickly reveal. Imagine a mostly college-educated fighting force! A platoon of wisdom and massive firepower, where several members are qualified to take the lead. It would be a very lethal group of soldiers, indeed.

We would get personnel less likely to violate code or commit crimes. A significant reduction in events such as assaulting each other or fragging each other, less engaging in brutality and torture against a prisoner. Perhaps, personnel would be more likely to fully identify a family or a wedding party before pushing the fire button from 5,000 miles away in a small steel building?

Domestic abuse among military families and single young people would be significantly reduced with a mature armed service. Domestic violence in the military has risen sharply. In the seven extra years an 18-year-old has to live his or her civilian life, they will be far more practiced at all relationships. Even having likely already experienced a crisis with a friend or loved one, or several crises in relations. We learn with practice, so why make our military a relationship learning grounds? We get personnel who have life skills, because they may have been living on their own for several years of their early twenties. We get people with adapted social skills, who have learned the benefits and consequences of young adult relationships.

No arrest record should be present, as usual, for our new twenty-five-year-olds. The seven years of living as a young adult with no arrest record is an excellent measure that that recruit will likely never have trouble with the military police.

We'll get personnel less likely to go awol as they will know more of honor and commitment than our young military. At twenty-five, our military personnel will be less likely to abuse alcohol and other substances. As the legal experimentation with alcohol years will be behind the twenty-five-year-old volunteers. Pride and honor will more likely be understood, and it's merits practiced on the battlefield more so with a mature military. 

The well known early twenties diagnoses of bipolar disorder and clinical depression and schizophrenia will have likely already occurred before age 25. The frequency of personnel receiving psychiatric diagnoses, of an underlying condition, through the military medical system, will be reduced.

We get personnel less likely to impregnate and become pregnant. If a young adult has not learned the benefits and responsibilities of birth control use by the age of twenty-five, they should not get into the United States military. We get personnel less likely to have dependents like a young spouse and babies, a condition that stresses the soldier. Pregnancy surprises and mistakes are the domains of young people and teenagers predominately. During service, these young families cost our government a great deal, in healthcare, housing, daycare, PX resources. No longer does society condone young families. But when they happen, we all embrace the young couples and adore their children anyway - because that's natural and very human. But the military is not their extended family, and an obligation to care for them must be forgotten as an old tradition. A pre-twenty-five-year-old who has their heart set on a military career, will likely, keep in close mind that they won't get in if they have a child.

Perhaps a rule that the military will not extend benefits and services to service person's dependents until 5-10 years in service is reached? Allowing encouragement for career followers to achieve a family as a stable family.

The military doesn't teach life skills, and that should not be their business. While our people are fighting our wars for us, they are not fully living in society, which is a factor in the known difficulties and hardships a veteran young adult encounters. Imagine having to catch-up with the culture after years of military life. Being still inexperienced and having to learn living skills, like applying to jobs, getting into a college, feeding and housing your young family in a real job competitive and low paying economy. Imagine, finding out you are ignorant of much of life's non-military facets? But there you are out in the thick of it. It must be very depressing for many. We should not be surprised that as of this writing, the pentagon's figures for veteran suicides is averaging now 22 veterans per day, and this is very disturbing. With twenty-five-year-old personnel, this misery will be significantly reduced as older young adults are more likely prepared for a sophisticated and tough society in and out of military life.

Not being prepared to be a close witness to something horrific in war makes acceptance more complicated, this is more often a summary in the description of a post-traumatic stress disorder sufferer. A military person who is experiencing the memory of an event which haunts him or her is not moving on in life. The twenty-five-year-old has had several more crucial developmental years in which to contemplate his or her acceptance of the horrors we humans are capable of. His or her choice to risk being close to these horrors is far clearer. The situation they may place themselves in, more thought-out by proxy of the years of real-life they have lived before their service. Age is not the always the predominant factor in PTSD, but young age is there consistently. The misery of PTSD occurrence would be significantly reduced with a mature military.

I see only benefits to our nations' defense from having a mature military at this time. If we had a shortage of able-bodied people in society, I could reason that we need young blood to be military personnel. But that's not the case and likely never will be again as our population is so large.

James Gray Mason

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